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It

Stephen King · 1986

Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.

2,229-word summary · 10 min read

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton · 1990

Hammond clones dinosaurs on Isla Nublar and invites Grant, Sattler and Malcolm to certify safety before opening.

2,388-word summary · 11 min read

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · 2017

In planned Shaker Heights, Elena Richardson rents to drifting artist Mia Warren, and a custody fight over baby May Ling splits friends and teens.

1,911-word summary · 8 min read

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955

Humbert Humbert confesses his obsession with Dolores Haze and the road trip that ruins them.

2,706-word summary · 12 min read

Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 1623

Macbeth hears witches hail him king and murders Duncan with Lady Macbeth pushing him on.

4,056-word summary · 18 min read

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021

The Riva siblings throw their famous August 1983 Malibu party as old family wounds surface, in Taylor Jenkins Reid's sunlit story of fame, surf, and starting…

2,587-word summary · 11 min read

Matilda

Roald Dahl · 1988

Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.

2,296-word summary · 10 min read

Never Lie

Freida McFadden · 2022

Newlyweds snowed in at a missing psychiatrist's house find tapes of patients.

3,849-word summary · 17 min read

November 9

Colleen Hoover · 2015

Fallon and Ben meet every November 9 for five years with no contact between, until his novel reveals the fire that scarred her.

2,547-word summary · 11 min read

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Seven generations of the Buendia family rise and fall in Macondo, where memory, war and miracles blur together.

2,093-word summary · 9 min read

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 2017

Five Bayview teens enter detention and Simon dies, leaving Bronwyn Nate Addy and Cooper suspects.

3,158-word summary · 14 min read

Outlander

Diana Gabaldon · 1991

Nurse Claire Randall slips through Craigh na Dun from 1945 to 1743 Scotland, torn between Frank and Jamie Fraser as clan politics, war and witch trials close…

2,190-word summary · 10 min read